Castle on a Cliff

Frederick Judd Waugh (American 1861-1940)
Circa: 1925
Size: 14 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 7"
Carved from a single bock of wood, with a cluster of conjoined tudor-esque buildings, winding roads, hidden tunnels and a sheer cliff, the painter, Frederick Waugh carved this fanciful fortress for his graddaughter. Painted details on the buildings and some shrubbery. A very neat object.

According to George R. Havens, the celebrated marine painter, Frederick Waugh became fascinated with wood around 1914, when on Monhegan Island, ME, he was intrigued by the root structures and tree shapes he found there. These organic "ready-mades" inspired him to write and illustrate, The Clan of Munes, a series of children's books that Waugh produced.(1) Havens goes on to site two castles that Waugh made for family members. One of cardboard and papier-mâché as a Christmas present for his children in 1904. And another, similar in size to the carving herein, is described as a small carved wood castle, about 12" high, created about 1919.(2).

1) George R. Havens, Frederick J. Waugh, American Marine Painter (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1969), pp. 139-147.
2) Ibid., p. 313.

Provenace: By family descent, private collector.

Condition: Excellent. All original.

Price: SOLD

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